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• You can only go to places that you will let yourself go.

  Charles Yu

  Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Enhanced Edition): A Novel”, p.167, Knopf

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• I had forgotten: this is what it feels like to live in time. The lurching forward, the sensation of falling of a cliff into darkness, and then landing abruptly, surprised, confused, and then starting the whole process again in the next moment, doing that over and over again, falling into each instant of time and then climbing back up only to repeat the process.

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  Confused, Fall, Climbing

  Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.63, Vintage

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• Within a science fictional space, memory and regret are, when taken together, the set of necessary and sufficient elements required to produce a time machine.

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  Memories, Regret, Taken

  Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.34, Vintage

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• I am transcribing a book that I have, in a sense, not yet written, and in another sense, have always written, and in another sense, am currently writing, and in another sense, am always writing, and in another sense, will never write.

  Charles Yu

  Book, Writing, Transcribing

  Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Enhanced Edition): A Novel”, p.104, Knopf

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• You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits. Gross, right? A bloody pulpy liquid mess. Look at it, try to make sense of it. Realize you can't. Because there is no sense. Ask your computer to print out a list of every lie you have ever told. Ask yourself how much of the universe you have ever really seen. Look in the mirror. Are you sure you're you? Are you sure you didn't slip out of yourself in the middle of the night, and someone else slipped into you, without you or you or any of you even noticing?

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  Lying, Heart, Night

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• What is this called, what I am doing, to myself, to my life, this wallowing, this pondering, this rolling over and over in the same places of my memory, wearing them thin, wearing them out? Why don't I ever learn? Why don't I ever do anything different?

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  Memories, Rolling, Different

  Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.207, Vintage

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• This is what I say: I've got good news and bad news. The good news is, you don't have to worry, you can't change the past. The bad news is, you don't have to worry, no matter how hard you try, you can't change the past. The universe just doesn't put up with that. We aren't important enough. No one is. Even in our own lives. We're not strong enough, willful enough, skilled enough in chronodiegetic manipulation to be able to just accidentally change the entire course of anything, even ourselves.

  Charles Yu

  Strong, Past, Worry

  Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.14, Vintage

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• All of her heart, a meaningless phrase, but correct and precise, too. She used her heart to love him, not her head, and not her words and not her thoughts or ideas or feelings or any other vehicle or object or device people use to deliver love or love-like things.

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  Heart, Ideas, People

  Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.124, Vintage

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• You haven’t experienced awkwardness until you’ve seen a three-million-dollar piece of software cry.

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  Three, Pieces, Dollars

  Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.219, Vintage

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• Sometimes at night I worry about TAMMY. I worry that she might get tired of it all. Tired of running at sixty-six terahertz, tired of all those processing cycles, every second of every hour of every day. I worry that one of these cycles she might just halt her own subroutine and commit software suicide. And then I would have to do an error report, and I don't know how I would even begin to explain that to Microsoft.

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  Suicide, Running, Tired

  Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.9, Vintage

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• How many times have I failed before? How many times have I stood here like this, in front of my own image, in front of my own person, trying to convince him not to be scared, to go on, to get out of this rut? How many times before I finally convince myself, how many private, erasable deaths will I need to die, how may self-murders is it going to take, how many times will I have to destroy myself before I learn, before I understand?

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  Self, Trying, Ruts

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• How do you convince someone to change, to stop being afraid of himself? How do you convince yourself not to be so scared all the time?

  Charles Yu

  Scared, Convince, Being Afraid

  Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Enhanced Edition): A Novel”, p.218, Knopf

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• Time is a machine: it will convert your pain into experience... It will force you to move on and you will not have a choice in the matter.

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  Pain, Moving, Choices

  Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.54, Vintage

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